Each year, Transparency International draws on surveys of businessmen and country experts to gauge perceptions of corruption in 159 countries around the world.
The series was intended to gauge perceptions of and attitudes in the public services as they prepare to move from a golden age of bumper year-on-year spending increases into a period of relative austerity.
The survey also sought to gauge perceptions of corruption: people from sub-Saharan Africa held the most negative view of corruption in institutions, while 47 countries identified parliament or congress as the institution with the most corrupt members, with 32 countries putting the police in first place.
Semi-structures household interviews were conducted with various stakeholder groups to identify what tree products are used, to ascertain amounts used as well as to gauge perceptions of natural resource use between different tree species and use over time.
We survey them, observe them and put them through controlled experiments to gauge perceptions, attitudes, behaviors and other insights about what "makes us tick" and how we work together.
Scaled responses were used to gauge perceptions of the following characteristics of their job: management authority, accountability, career development, recruitment pattern of staff and their deployment, payment schedule, promotion opportunity and survival strategy.
This paper combines survey questionnaire and walkability audit to gauge perception of the urban walking environment.
Microsoft has also been testing virus control and other security technologies in an initiative called PC Satisfaction, aimed at gauging how perceptions of Windows change when users feel confident their data are safe.
All nursing staff were invited to participate in the survey gauging staff perceptions and use of the guidelines in practice.
In order to gauge the perceptions of our staff, we carried out a brief survey in June 2012 and 981 people responded out of a total of around 1600.
